[brapper]

so says Spymac
I may be a bit tipsy, but this boggles my mind.

edit: quote added:
"In addition, Asustek will also start shipping iBook G5 notebooks to Apple in the second quarter of this year. Shipments of the current iBook notebooks totaled about 110,000-120,000 units a month in the fourth quarter last year, the sources noted."

[CreepingDeth]

Spymac, eh? Um…no. Spymac sucks. I don't understand how they could fit a processor like that in a smaller, more compact package but struggle with a larger Powerbook?

[Mafia]

http://www.mafia-designs.com/images/Picture.jpg
[NO huge inline images. --tooki]
aparently slated to ship at the same time.

[CreepingDeth]

Originally posted by Mafia:
[Don't quote huge inline images. Besides, you didn't need to quote AT ALL since you were responding to the message immediately above yours. --tooki]

Believe it when I see it. They're really going to have the cut all the fat out to make those laptops run.

[Mafia]

Originally posted by CreepingDeth:
I didn't know they shipped blue question marks, too.

fixed..

[Link]

WOOHOO! That's awesome news.

[CreepingDeth]

How about the accuracy of this thing? How do we know for sure? We don't want a PowerbookGate scandal going on.

[Link]

I know it isn't always the greatest thing to get all worked up about, but I am.. a g5 with 9800 mobile will be icing on the cake

[CharlesS]

Crossposted from the thread in the PowerBook forum:

Not to rain on everyone's parade here, but this rumor came from Digitimes. Their accuracy seems to be slightly less than MOSR. I say slightly less because at least MOSR managed to get the Cube right, five years ago.

Example of a whole bunch of BS rumors from Digitimes:

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2003/...17033706.shtml

That was in September 2003. Since then, here are some more rumors DigiTimes has put out:

iBox - AirPort-enabled TV tuner and video recorder:

15.4-inch PowerBook

Metallic iMac, and Apple-branded Tablet PC

And a new one - Is the Apple brand being discarded?, with the evidence being that the Apple logo appears face down if you stand the Mac mini on its side instead of laying it flat on the desk as intended (WTF?)

The combination of their rumors being very unreliable in the past, the fact that Oppenheimer just made it clear not to expect a G5 PowerBook soon, and the fact that this rumor mentions an iBook G5 makes me very, very skeptical.

[Mafia]

, we can hope atleast. btw i want an ibox.

[B Gallagher]

yeah.. it seems the iBooks will be due for an update in the 2nd quarter.. but I doubt it'll be G5.
Shame though.

[andreas_g4]

Ahm... iBook G5 before Powerbook G5 can simply not happen. I could imagine both lines going G5 at the same time (because if they can fit it into a Powerbook, they can fit it into an iBook, unlike Power Mac <-> iMac), but then of course with substantial benefits on the Powerbook side to distinguish them…

[Mafia]

Originally posted by andreas_g4:
Ahm... iBook G5 before Powerbook G5 can simply not happen. I could imagine both lines going G5 at the same time (because if they can fit it into a Powerbook, they can fit it into an iBook, unlike Power Mac <-> iMac), but then of course with substantial benefits on the Powerbook side to distinguish them…

if the chart above is true, which it looks like its not. then they will be released at the same time.

[mitchell_pgh]

I don't see why they need to bump the iBook to a G4 along with the PowerBook.

It seemed rather logical when they bumped the PowerMac to a G5 while the iMac and eMac stayed with a G4 for a few months.

[macaddict0001]

Originally posted by Mafia:
[Don't quote huge inline images. --tooki]
aparently slated to ship at the same time.

if it were real would it be hosted on your server?

[Goldfinger]

Originally posted by macaddict0001:
if it were real would it be hosted on your server?

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20050114A7040.html

[andreas_g4]

Originally posted by Mafia:
if the chart above is true, which it looks like its not. then they will be released at the same time.

I didn't consider the chart true at all. My specualtion was just guessing. I forgot to make clear that I do not believe that Apple will release iBooks with G5 at the same time with the Powerbooks.

[Mafia]

Originally posted by macaddict0001:
if it were real would it be hosted on your server?

lol. saved it to my hd and uploaded to my server.

Originally posted by andreas_g4:
I didn't consider the chart true at all. My specualtion was just guessing. I forgot to make clear that I do not believe that Apple will release iBooks with G5 at the same time with the Powerbooks.

i don't consider it true at all either. i am just posting the chart.

[macaddict0001]

Haha yeah it seems digitimes did actually make it. Still don't think its true though. If it was though it would sure break a history of delayed ibooks.

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by Goldfinger:
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20050114A7040.html

If it were real, would it be hosted on Digitimes' server?

[hagheid]

I'll bet that with the ibook you only get the screen & you BYOP&K!

[MilkmanDan]

I second the "whatever" to the G5 iBook. SpyMac is a whole lot of BS.